Resurgent Culture

by Swami Krishnananda

Publishers' Note

The present publication brings out the substance of the three lectures delivered by Swami Krishnananda at the University of Allahabad, on an invitation received from the hon’ble Vice-Chancellor, requiring that the students be addressed on the essentials of culture and a life of knowledge. These discourses were given on the 7th, 8th and 9th of November, 1960, and they cover the foundation of Indian Philosophy and a practical application of it in one’s daily life. The Appendices provide a statement on the leading points in the technique of living an Integral Life, and an effective method that could be implemented in the Educational Process.

It is the fond hope of the Swamiji that this unique example set forth by the Allahabad University in feeling the necessity to work for rousing in the minds of students a consciousness of the Higher Life be emulated by the other Universities also. Knowledge is notmere accumulation of facts, and is meaningless if it is divested of that light which illumines the basic demands of human nature. Education and culture make the true Man, and towards this end are the efforts through this publication directed.

——THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY